LibreOffice now has support for the (non-ISO-SQL-standard) feature "please return at most n results" in a query.

For now, it only supports the SQL syntax (the most common one):
  SELECT foo FROM bar LIMIT n
But Microsoft Jet uses this syntax:
  SELECT TOP n FROM bar
And OracleDB something like this:
  SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE rowid<n

As an improvement, it would be nice to support the different syntaxes. My suggestion would be to add an "advanced" setting (in edit/database/advanced settings). Like we now have a choice "Comparison of Boolean values" that can be set to "Default", "SQL", "Mixed" or "MS Access", we could there have a setting "return max n rows syntax", whose choices would be:

 - LIMIT n
 - TOP n
 - rowid < n


Then, the code that creates an SQL string from SQL design mode can take this setting in account to produce the right kind of syntax.

SDBC connectors that know to which dbms they connect to (such as e.g. the MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS Access and embedded HSQLDB one, but not ODBC or JDBC) can then lock the value of this setting to the right value (like the postgresql sdbc connector now locks the value of "Use ODBC conformant date/time literal" to false, since that's what PostgreSQL requires. (And then the setting does not even appear in the dialog, but is just set under the hood.)